When did STEELBAND PARTICIPATION on the road for Carnival hit its peak?

Cecil Hinkson and Glenroy Joseph are always clamoring for the return of PANS ON THE ROAD for carnival. And most of us remember PAN being the dominant musical force on the road for Carnival during our window of youth. What year did PAN ON THE ROAD reach its zenith?

Some people point to the 1979 Panorama Boycott as the turning point. Is there a consensus on this?

Great essays, Noel and Steve Regis. All people seem to want to talk about today is ways of making profits from the pan. Not that this is a bad thing, but what seems to be forgotten is the sheer joy of "beating pan" back in the day.

And yes , pan language purists I used the "b" word.

In my memories, nothing compares to the feeling of being behind your pans as a member of a powerful steelband dropping a bomb tune, as the sun rose on a J'ouvert morning, sometime in the nineteen sixties.

David the year was 1965, Cavaliers played Melody Mas and won Panorama - the first south band to do so. Unfortunately no one seems to have a Panorama recording of this rendition - not even Bobby Mohammed. The only available recording is an abridged, slower paced version of the tune that was recorded in the pan yard